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In an analysis of the best available Earth systems models, Northeastern researchers found that by the turn of the next ...

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For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

In a new Nature Physics paper, researchers report the first experimental observation of the transverse Thomson effect, a key ...